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December newsletter
Have your say on the next steps for Victoria’s work to end family violence.
News archive
December
October
September
- September newsletter: Workforce Pulse Survey open, The Orange Door opens in Hastings and Echuca, Family Violence Research Grants awarded, Are You Safe At Home? videos in 15 languages, research report launch
- Have your say: Family Violence and Sexual Assault Workforce Pulse survey
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
December
November
August
July
June
- Building from Strength - five years on
- Collaborating to build a world leading family violence and primary prevention workforce
- Additional initiatives
- Industry Plan: Whole of System Reform
- Priority area 1: Building workforce capability
- Priority area 2: Enhancing training architecture
- Priority area 3: Recruiting and retaining specialist workforce
- Priority area 4: Strengthening leadership in the specialist sector
- Priority area 6: Building sector and organisational capacity
April
March
- Five years on
- Aboriginal Community Initiatives Fund applications open now
- International Women’s Day: Still we rise, to demand freedom, justice and violence-free lives
- Successful applicants announced for Dhelk Dja Family Violence Funds
February
January
December
November
- Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and 16 Days of Activism
- Family Violence Memorial designed for reflection and hope
October
August
- A message from VSAC's chair and deputy chair
- Reflections from new VSAC members
- Russ Vickery reflects on 'Pride in Prevention'
July
June
May
- Q&As to support funded agencies during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- “So, what do you do?” Growing the family violence workforce
- Statement in response to VAGO audit of The Orange Door
- Violence against women and children and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
April
- Our new Chief Executive Officer, Eleri Butler
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) forum for the family violence sector
March
February
- Farewell and thank you to inaugural members of the Victim Survivors' Advisory Council
- New members of the Victim Survivors' Advisory Council welcomed
- A new Orange Door coming to Goulburn
- Enhanced Pathways to Family Violence Work Project
- New framework to guide implementation of Aboriginal Holistic Healing programs
- Horse therapy helping children and young people in Goulburn
November
- Q&A with Emily Macguire for Victoria's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
- Growing the family violence workforce in regional Australia
- Therapeutic interventions to help women, children and young people recover from family violence
- Practice leaders recruited for The Orange Door in Central Highlands
September
- 'My experience of family violence when I was younger was terrible'
- The solutions are in the hearts and minds of the kids themselves
August
- Natasha Anderson speaks out on need to engage children and young people
- VSAC member helps launch My Money Conversation Kit
- Young mother shares her experience of The Orange Door
July
June
- Addressing older people's experiences of family violence through MARAM
- Key issues explored at elder abuse forum
- Meet the VSAC representative for older people
- Respect Victoria elder abuse campaign launched
- New research on young Australians' attitudes to violence against women and gender equality
May
- Q&A with VSAC youth representative Natasha Anderson
- Practice guidance and services' buildings designed with children and young people in mind
- Dhelk Dja Aboriginal Family Violence Industry Strategy
- Fast tracking future specialist leaders
- Sector leaders invited to join 2019 Leadership Intensives
- Sharing insights on therapeutic approaches
March
February
- Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations encouraged to apply for funding to become Rainbow Tick-accredited
- Building a workforce to create an inclusive, safe system
- Central Information Point shown to help keep people safer
- Violence against women: everything to do with patriarchy
January
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